Are you average? I doubt it. To me, that’s a bit of an insult…Who wants to be average? If you’re on this blog, it’s unlikely you aspire to be average.
I thought you’d be interested in knowing some ‘average’ facts to see where you stack up.
(Apologies to my non-American readers, it’s easiest to find stats for the good ole US of A).The average American man is 5 feet, 10.3″ tall, and weighs 187 Ibs.
- The average American man is 5 feet, 10.3″ tall and weighs 187 lbs.
- The average American women is 5 feet, 4.1″ tall, and weighs 134 Ibs.
- The average American male has 17.6% body fat.
- The average American female has 28% body fat.
- The average American male exercises 2.87 hours a week.
- The average American female exercises 1.34 hours a week.
- The average American male has 12.4 inch biceps, a 39.7 inch chest and a 34.6 inch waist.
- Wears a 36 B bra. This is an increase from 34 B bra size worn by the average American female in 1990.
- Watches television 6.16 hours a day.
- Average child watches 4.7 hours of television a day on weekdays, and 8.4 hours on weekends – about 40 hours a week.
- Spends 21.7 hours per day indoors.
- Belongs to a commercial gym, but uses it less then once a week.
- Spends $596 dollars on sporting goods equipment each year.
- Spends $874 on vitamins and food supplements.
- The average man can do three dips and the average woman does less than one dip.
- The average man bench presses 145 and squats 165 pounds.
- The average woman bench presses 60 and squats 105 pounds.
- The average man does 11 push ups and 17 sit ups.
- The average woman does four push-ups and nine sit ups.
- Can’t touch their toes without bending their legs.
- Goes on a diet 5.2 times annually. Only 17 percent of these women actually lose weight, but only one percent of them keep it off for more then five years.
- After the age of 25, gains one pound of weight per year.
- By the age of 65, will have gained over 40 pounds of weight.
- Will lose a half pound of lean muscle tissue each year after the age of 25.
- The average woman will gain 11.6 pounds that she won’t lose every time she has a child.
- Consumes approximately 32 teaspoons of sugar each day.
- Consumes thirty times (9500 milligrams) more sodium than the body requires.
- Consumes more calories (4236 calories daily) per person than any other group of people in the world.
- Has 30 billion fat cells, the average obese American has 80 billion fat cells.
- Learns 14 new words a year reads .58 books a year, and writes 7 pages a year.
- Will live to be 77 years old.
There you have it. How do you stack up?
There are some pretty scary facts here. Are you average?